Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous
It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code.
Anonymous
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
If we can't fix it, then it ain't broke.
Jon Bentley
Good programmers invest the effort to learn how to use current practices. Not-so-good programmers just learn the buzzwords, and that’s been a software industry constant for a half century.
Boris Beizer
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous